@SuperSnekFriend@ArdainianRight@LittleTom pain olympics was fake but there were a lot of insane people on BME. Said site was very notorious in the "body modification" community, which is adjacent but also kind of different to troon shit.
In particular the same goal of body modification and chasing the dragon exists. There's an old greentext from one of the old GG boards about "cat man", how he got tons of surgeries, and ended up offing himself IRL. Oh gee, guess who was also featured on BME? That's right, him.